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​​Josué Ortega CV

​​Lecturer in Economics, Queen’s University Belfast, since 2019.

​​ confirmed in post, since 2021.

​​Education

​​Ph.D. in Economics, University of Glasgow, 2014 - 2017.

​​Advisor: Hervé Moulin. Examiner: Olivier Tercieux.

​​Visiting Columbia University in NYC, during fall semester 2016.

​​M.Sc. in Economics, Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012 - 2014.

​​Previous Employment

​​Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), researcher, 2018 - 2019.

​​University of Essex, lecturer, 2017 - 2018.

​​Publications

​​Fair cake-cutting in practice, 

​​Games and Economic Behavior (2022).

​​with M. Kyropoulou and E. Segal-Halevi, 

​​extended abstract on the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.

​​Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting, 

​​Social Choice and Welfare (2022).

​​with E. Segal-Halevi. 

​​On the integration of Shapley-Scarf housing markets, 

​​Journal of Mathematical Economics (2022).

​​with K. Manocha and R. Kumar. 

​​extended abstract on the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory. 

​​Efficiency and fairness in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences, 

​​Economics Letters (2020).

​​with B. Bhardwaj and R. Kumar.

​​Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences, 

​​Mathematical Social Sciences (2020).

​​The losses from integration in matching markets can be large, 

​​Economics Letters (2019).

​​Social integration in two-sided matching markets, 

​​Journal of Mathematical Economics (2018).

​​Working Papers - available at arXiv

​​Improving efficiency and equality in school choice, with T. Klein 

​​accepted @ the Match-Up workshop in Vienna

​​invited for submission to GEB special issue

​​Social integration via online dating, with P. Hergovich. 

​​What happens when separate and unequal school districts merge?, with R. Aue and T. Klein

​​Media Coverage

​​MIT Tech Review, New Scientist, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, BBC’s Thinking Allowed, Marginal Revolution, ...

​​Awards & Grants

​​Principal Investigator, ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Award, worth £24,400. 

​​Co-recipient of the following two Leibniz Association grants:

​​1 Design and impact of admissions rules for schools worth 330,000 euros.

​​2 Improving school admissions for diversity worth 340,000 euros.

​​Seal of excellence for Marie Curie fellowship worth 162,806 euros.

​​North America Research Mobility Fund.

​​Queen’s Management School Research Funding Innovation Prize.

​​EssexLab Seedcorn Fund Grant.

​​Glasgow Principal's Early Career Mobility Fund